{"product_id":"one-of-ours-9781948742535","title":"One of Ours","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1923, \u003cem\u003eOne of Ours\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of Claude Wheeler, the son of a Nebraska farmer. As a young man, Claude is dissatisfied with Nebraska farm like as well as his marriage to a childhood friend, desperate for a more cosmopolitan life. When America joins the Great War, Claude decides to enlist, where he finds excitement and fulfillment--as well as tragedy--on the battlefield.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eOne of Ours\u003c\/em\u003e was considered a failure by some male critics of the day: H. L. Mencken said it drops to the level of a serial in the \u003cem\u003eLadies' Home Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, fought out not in France, but on a Hollywood movie-lot, and Ernest Hemingway panned Cather for not having experienced the front-line herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e However, the Pulitzer committee considered it the greatest novel of the year, and this accessible, dramatic novel sold many more copies than Cather's more famous ones, \u003cem\u003eO, Pioneers!\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMy Antonia\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilla Cather was an American writer who is most famous for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca Onion is a staff writer for Slate. Her work has appeared in Aeon Magazine, the Boston Globe's Ideas section, the Virginia Quarterly Review, The Atlantic, Topic Magazine, the Austin-American Statesman, and others. She lives in Athens, Ohio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Belt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50922325147922,"sku":"9781948742535","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_27f9681b-e874-45ae-98c4-5eb99589988e.jpg?v=1772531688","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/one-of-ours-9781948742535","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}